OSgrid reconnects with residents in weekly meetings

Entrance of Wright Plaza on OSgrid, the grid’s main offices. The weekly meetings are held on the second floor.

In case you missed it, OSgrid has been holding weekly meetings every Saturday at Wright Plaza, after a long period in which communications between grid managers and residents were problematic.

“We restarted it about three months ago,” said grid treasurer Lawrence Roberts on the Inworld Review last week. “It’s been well-attended, and people seem to enjoy it, too. If I’m not there then Dan Banner will usually take it over.”

The meetings are held at 11 a.m. Pacific on the second floor of the grid’s main administration building. The hypergrid teleport address is hg.osgrid.org:80:wright plaza.

“We also started some tutorials on how to set up OpenSim, various things like that,” he said.

Roberts, who is also known as Albertlr Landar in-world, became treasurer in April after a long term as grid secretary. Dan Banner, who was previously the treasurer, became OSgrid president at the same time.

Banner replaced James Stallings, also known as Hiro Protagonist in-world. Stallings’ administration was marked by an outage that lasted from mid-August 2014 to mid-February 2015 — a little more than six months. The previous year, hypergrid teleports to the popular non-profit Metropolis grid were temporarily suspended and the previously-regular Town Hall meetings were shut down.

Since coming back online earlier this year, OSgrid has regained its position as the largest OpenSim grid and has significantly improved communications.

It is also the most popular non-profit grid, with over 3,600 active users last month, and the oldest world running on the OpenSimulator software. The grid is celebrating its ninth birthday next month.

Maria Korolov is editor and publisher of Hypergrid Business. She has been a journalist for more than twenty years and has worked for the Chicago Tribune, Reuters, and Computerworld and has reported from over a dozen countries, including Russia and China.

“Stallings’ administration was marked by an outage that lasted from mid-August 2014 to mid-February 2015 — a little more than six months. Hypergrid teleports to the popular non-profit Metropolis grid were temporarily suspended and the previously-regular Town Hall meetings were shut down.”

that the removal of the ability for avatars to hypergate from OSG to Metropolis *and to OSG from Metro) was instigated prior to the OSG shutdown issues.

That was finally solved by the Metropolis admins by changing their IP address. In anycase it did show Metropolis as showing open arms to any and all affected by any of these issues (and others). That in turn led to Metropolis growing almost twice-fold and then also to many starting their own grids.

I find it interesting how one thing leads to another thing with causality leading to effect. Often people talk about the effects when to get to the bare truth they need to find the causal matter. In other words, there can be no effect without “something” being its cause. I think it is because some people are just too mentally lazy.